Career assessments

Career assessments can be a useful tool to assist in self awareness in an individual’s career exploration and planning. Students can take each of the CDC’s assessments once during their time at Macalester. Assessments are free for current students and $25 each for alumni. These assessments are conducted online. Individual career counseling appointments must be scheduled to first identify which assessments will be useful for you, and how to best integrate assessment results into career exploration goals. Following the assessment, an appointment is required to review assessment results. Current assessment offerings:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The MBTI is a tool for identifying and understanding your own preferences and discovering how they apply to a career decision.

The MBTI will also help identify decision-making and relational styles.

Information can be used to understand yourself, motivations, strengths, and potential areas of growth.

Strong Interest Inventory

The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is based on the idea that individuals are more satisfied and productive when they work in jobs or at tasks that they find interesting.

The SII takes about 30 minutes to complete and contains 317 items that measure your interests in a wide range of occupations, occupational activities, hobbies, leisure activities, and types of people.

Your interests are compared to thousands of individuals who report being happy and successful in their jobs.